PRAYER MOMENT
Wednesday
27 November 2013
ENDURANCE
Pause. Enter into your silence within.
Reading. “You
will be hated by all men on account of my name, but not a hair of your head
will be lost. Your endurance will win you your lives.” (Luke 21: 12-19)
Reflection. Durare is a Latin word meaning to
harden. In the Lenten readings on the Passion there are the words of Isaiah
that the Suffering Servant “set his face like flint”. In these final days of
the Church’s year we have passages about the trials the early Christians were
to face. And we are to see in these
words an application to our own times and lives. There is no avoiding the
struggle. Most of us may not be betrayed and arrested but in countless ways life
makes tough demands and our calling is to patient, even joyful, endurance in
the face of adversity. In this way we witness to the great ultimate plan of God
for his people.
Prayer. Lord, help
us to answer your call to endure – not in some kind of stoical loveless
submission but – in joy and patience, knowing that we tread the same “way to
life” that you walked when you “set your face towards Jerusalem.” Amen.
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